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  • Home Owner Association Snow Removal: Your Questions Answered (PA)
    It is November 15, and temperatures are forecast to reach almost 70 degrees later this week. Naturally, I am thinking about snow removal for condominiums and homeowners associations. Even though snowfall was almost nonexistent during the winter of 2022-23, boards need to prepare for the upcoming season and revisit some of the questions we discuss every year.   Read the article……………………………………
  • Wrongful death suit brought against landscaping, residential companies results in total $425K settlement (PA)
    Landscaping services and retail management companies has settled a lawsuit brought by a Delaware County man, who alleged negligence on its part and others led to his mother suffering a fall and injuries that led to her death, for a total of $425,000.   Read the article………………………..
  • Delayed Decisions On Accommodation Requests Lead To Trouble
    A recent federal court decision in U.S. v. The Dorchester Owners Association, No. 20-1396 (E.D. Penn. Jan. 25, 2023), is instructive as to how boards of directors can put their associations at risk when they fail to make timely final decisions on accommodation requests or impose unreasonable conditions in granting those requests. In this case, the requests were for emotional support animals, but the lessons learned here apply to any request for an accommodation under the Fair Housing Act (FHA).  ...
  • Big Changes to Condominium and Homeowners’ Association Elections are Coming This Summer: Part II (PA)
    Act 115 of 2022 will amend the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act and the Uniform Planned Communities Act to change the ways meetings and elections are held. In Part One, I listed many ways that Act 115 will help communities. In this part, I will talk about some of the ways Act 115 may make things more difficult.   Read the article………………………..
  • Condo Charged with Discrimination for Delay in Approving Assistance Animal
    In a recent case out of Pennsylvania, a condominium association was found to have violated Fair Housing laws for its delay in approving requests for reasonable accommodation for an emotional support animal belonging to a resident and for imposing conditions on the animals’ use of the common area.   Read the article………………………..
  • Delayed Decisions On Accommodation Requests Lead To Trouble
    A recent federal court decision in U.S. v. The Dorchester Owners Association, No. 20-1396 (E.D. Penn. Jan. 25, 2023), is instructive as to how boards of directors can put their associations at risk when they fail to make timely final decisions on accommodation requests or impose unreasonable conditions in granting those requests.  Read the article………………………..
  • Big Changes to Condominium and Homeowners’ Association Elections are Coming This Summer: Part I (PA)
    New amendments to the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act and Uniform Planned Communities Act (“UPCA”) will make huge changes in the way communities hold meetings and elections. These Amendments are found in House Bill 1795 (Act 115 of 2022). Some of these changes make it easier to hold meetings and vote electronically. Others will make it more difficult – and potentially more expensive – to hold elections. The new requirements take effect on May 3, 2023.    Read the article………………………..

Pennsylvania Article Archives

 

Pennsylvania Laws

Planned Communities Act

Uniform Condominium Act

Pennsylvania Flag Bill “American, Commonwealth and Military Flag Act.” It provides that, notwithstanding a provision in the bylaws or other rules of a homeowner’s association, cooperative, condominium or planned community, a unit owner may fly the American flag, the Pennsylvania flag, or a military flag within his portion of the property under his exclusive control. The flag may not exceed 3’x 5′.

The bill provides that the association must permit the flying of such flags on enumerated days, including: President’s Day, Iwo Jima Flag Raising Day, Vietnam Veteran’s Day, V-E Day, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, V-J Day, Patriot’s Day, POW/MIA Recognition Day, Veterans Day, Pearl Harbor Day and the birthday of each branch of the United States Armed Forces.

 

Pennsylvania Condo & HOA Resources

Community Associations Institute – Pennsylvania & Delaware Valley Chapter

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